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The Revolving Doors (1988)
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The Revolving Doors (1988)
Original name: Les portes tournantes
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an added attraction, Celeste dons ornate gowns for each performance. Audiences are just as interested in her ever-changing apparel as they are in the film. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually convinces Celeste to be his wife. Shortly after she bears his son, Pierre joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. After Pierre is killed in battle, Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up.
Plot: artist, musician, jazz, teenage girl, pianist, family relations, african american, interracial relations, piano, father son relationship, self sacrifice, male female relationship, unemployment, mother in law daughter in law relationship, widow, diary, husband wife relationship, death of husband, father in law daughter in law relationship, flashback, marriage, black american, grandmother grandson relationship, jazz club, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new york, quebec
Keyword: movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about musician, family relations, husband wife relationship, music, father son relationship, musician's life and african american mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres. Some movies like The Revolving Doors: Blind Man's Bluff (1993), Zinat (1994), The Touch (1992), The Cat and the Moon (2019), Clover (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blind Man's Bluff (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her ...
Plot: golem, concert, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, neighbor, musician, lawyer, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family relations, hypochondriac, pianist ...
Place: tel aviv israel
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Zinat (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
Plot: father in law daughter in law relationship, rural setting, family relations, engagement, father son relationship, marriage, small town, tradition, women's rights, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, public health ...
Place: iran
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70%
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The Touch (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new ...
Plot: musician, classical music, renaissance, age-gap relationship, unfaithfulness, empathy, train conductor, male female relationship, adultery, love, infidelity, extramarital affair ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Cat and the Moon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father's named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in the city, he befriends a group of kids who show him what New York has to offer.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, contemplative, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: 18 year old, friendship, teenage boy, underage drinking, love triangle, african american, drug dealer, teenager, loss of father, black american, male camaraderie, musician ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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Clover (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's ...
Plot: interracial romance, stepmother, child's point of view, loss of husband, interracial marriage, african american, ghost, widow, death of father, death, grief, father daughter relationship ...
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Maestro(s) (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Dunars are conductors from father to son. François' long and brilliant international career come to an end, whereas Denis has just won an umpteenth classical music award. When François is chosen to be the head of the Scala, his ultimate ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, thrilling
Plot: orchestra conductor, father son conflict, musician, orchestra, family life, family relations, musician's life, father, relationships, father son relationship, music, father and son
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Full Blast (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young sawmill workers try to get their band back together while waiting out a strike.
Plot: gay, lgbtq, homosexual, young man, rural setting, male pubic hair, male female relationship, gay interest, desperation, youth, existentialism, unemployment ...
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Bix (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Biopic of troubled jazz musician/composer Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931), who played with the Paul Whiteman band, among others.
Plot: jazz, flashback, musician
Time: year 1991, 1920s
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The Plouffe Family (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Plot: world war two, family relations, great depression, conscription, religion, catholic, french canadian
Place: quebec, canada
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Scott Joplin (1977)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, period piece
Plot: composer, jazz, piano, art history, art, blaxploitation, syphilis, biopic, interracial relations, music, society, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style: rough, serious, uplifting, suspense, visual ...
Plot: african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, black history, bigger dreams, stuttering, fired from the job ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s
Place: chicago, harlem, detroit, memphis, birmingham alabama ...
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49%
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 2K
A Kid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unknown father, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, fatherhood, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, bare chested male, alternative medicine ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: quebec, france, canada, montreal
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48%
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Autumn Sonata (1978)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style: art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, sincere ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, pianist, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, bad mother, existentialism, women ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Mambo Kings (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
Style: sentimental, melancholic, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, rags to riches, true love, performer's life, family relations, immigrant, love story, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, fame, love ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: cuba, new york, america, havana cuba, latin america ...
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42%
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Cavedweller (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sexy
Plot: husband wife relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, musician, family problems, family relations, musician's life, troubled marriage, dysfunctional marriage, family life, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
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Tango Argentino (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.
Style: pre war
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Place: eastern europe, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
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Style: contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
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Time: year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
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The Day the Ponies Come Back (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Plot: father, business, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, african american, husband wife relationship, single mother, grandfather grandson relationship, search for father, long lost father, street life, thief ...
Place: bronx new york city, new york
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Lackawanna Blues (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, youth, lifestyle, friends, parents and children, black, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, blaxploitation ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: new york, usa, pennsylvania, russia, toronto ontario canada
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Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York.
Style: reflective, independent film
Plot: jazz, blaxploitation, music and dance, biopic, alcoholism, urban setting, melancholy, cowardice, racism, price of fame, mistress, interracial friendship ...
Time: year 1967
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38%
All Night Long (1962)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: grindhouse, neo noir, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: jazz, shakespeare, jazz musician, shakespeare's othello, musician, tragic love, blaxploitation, interracial, music and dance, opera, african, underground ...
Time: 60s
Place: britain, london, england, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Madame Sousatzka (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The relationship between a demanding piano teacher and her student, an Indian prodigy.
Style: touching, sentimental, multicultural, realistic, serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Plot: composer, musician, biopic, fictional biography, amazon river, nudity, passion, heart condition, saxophonist, amazon, time, cellist ...
Time: 1940s, 1900s, 1890s, 1950s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
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Time: 1910s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The King of Friday Night (1985)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Cotton Club (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style: intense, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
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Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Cowgirl's Song (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring but adrift teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier. Together, they overcome adversity and find redemption through their ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: musician, country music, teenager, family relations, family problems, kids and family, teenage girl, teenage life, grandmother, lifestyle, female singer, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
Plot: alcoholics anonymous meeting, male female relationship, gay interest, family relations, military, husband wife relationship, police, love, marriage, father son relationship, friendship, post office ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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